Tokyo Electric Power Co.

It's radioactive, its plants can be expensive to build and it scares the bejeebers out of many, but to some, nuclear energy is the future. That may well be true, but for now, the race to that future has slowed to a cautious crawl as regulators have become increasingly guarded since the accident last year at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, while the emergence of cheap natural gas is preventing investors from pumping billions of dollars into new reactor projects. While European countries have a reputation for being more accepting of nuclear energy, and China is building reactors faster than anyone, the United States actually has the largest fleet of nuclear reactors, at...

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